#indieweb 2026-05-01

2026-05-01 UTC
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[tantek] Now this is how you rebuild on an old silo domain: https://ca98am79.medium.com/i-bought-friendster-for-30k-heres-what-i-m-doing-with-it-d5e8ddb3991d
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[tantek] You have to physically bump phones in person in order to add someone as a friend!
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[tantek] What is Friendster
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Loqi It looks like we don't have a page for "Friendster" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "Friendster is ____", a sentence describing the term)
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[capjamesg] Oooh I love that!
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[tantek] Yeah I may have to play with this
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[capjamesg] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpotPass_and_StreetPass#StreetPass let people with 3DSes communicate when in close proximity too.
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Loqi [indienews] New post: "Joyful web design" https://jamesg.blog/2026/05/01/joyful-web-design
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ZodiacalComet [capjamesg]++ for the 3DS callback
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Loqi [capjamesg] has 45 karma in this channel over the last year (212 in all channels)
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[capjamesg] ZodiacalComet I wish they still made the 3DS. It was such a good console.
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ZodiacalComet Ye, you get to play the entire DS family of games which is full of hidden gems
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ZodiacalComet Makes me regretful that I didn't kept the one I had, now that is so much easier to hack it
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[tantek] capjamesg++ awwww you blogged that so quickly! well done!
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Loqi capjamesg has 46 karma in this channel over the last year (213 in all channels)
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[capjamesg] It all came together while I was making lunch and I was like “I have to write this all _now”_ 😂
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[tantek] I love that "all came together" feeling, and can certainly related to "have to write this all _now"_ ❤️
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[tantek] relate* to
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[capjamesg] There is nothing like making a sandwich then realising you need to start writing right now.
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[capjamesg] I ate the sandwich before writing, but quickly 😅
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[tantek] on a very recent zoom, on the topic of joyful web design (see capjamesg post in IndieNews), that I want to call the joy experienced when visiting such sites or practicing joyful web design, "webjoy", as a nod to the Mission Control science officer Angela Garcia's term "moonjoy" that she coined in a comms reply to the Artemis II astronauts on mission. citation:
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[tantek] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Overview_effect#%22Moon_joy%22_phrase_origin_credit
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[tantek] capjamesg ^ there you go, not a personal post but at least an text expression with a permalink
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[tantek] also inspired me to look up who actually said "moon joy" outloud first that spawned the current meme/surge
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[capjamesg] [tantek] That looks like almost a blog post in itself!
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[tantek] haha indeed and I did edit it for a minute or two before posting in chat 😆
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[tantek] I'm drafting my brief pentathlon post now first to put context
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[tantek] I still have to look up cities, names of events, links and such even for a list of 5 things lol
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[capjamesg] 😄
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[capjamesg] I am looking forward to the moon joy post. I think you’re best qualified to write it.
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[capjamesg] (and the pentathalon post too; I have never had an experience like that)
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[tantek] I can't remember the last time I had an experience like that if ever
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[tantek] closest was maybe the week or so of SXSW festivals/conferences (Interactive, Film, Music) in Austin Texas
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[KevinMarks] I remember one year doing SXSW, an associated bar camp and then etech in rapid sequence
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[tantek] but not quite adjacent right? like you went home in between
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[tantek] capjamesg, I forgot a couple of "events". the concert Sunday night and climbing the Cologne Cathedral tower stairs to the top!
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[KevinMarks] Also doing SXSW followed directly by the Microsoft dev conference, which was quite a gear change.
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[KevinMarks] No, both times I went from one to the other
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[tantek] lol there is a podcast called "WebJoy" apparently. and a "Performance Marketing Agency". an architectural firm. I think I may add a space to make it a common noun phrase rather than a new word: "web joy". references to "moon joy" also have a space
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[capjamesg] I like it with the space.
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[tantek] and that is how I'm writing the post
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[tantek] here you go [capjamesg] https://tantek.com/2026/121/t2/web-joy
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Loqi [preview] [Tantek Çelik] "web joy" — the joy you experience when visiting a website with joyful content and/or have a joyful experience (as a user) on a website, or the joy of creating such a website. During the beyond tellerand conference this past week, someone mentione...
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aaronpk random idea i just had after getting an offer from an airline to send me luggage tags...
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aaronpk I could put in a URL as my name, like "aaronpk.com/lost", and make a simple page with instructions for how to contact me and my PO box address for shipping
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[tantek] I might pick a more CTA word like "return" rather than "lost" (which is your perspective, not theirs).
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[tantek] yeah I had an offer for printed luggage tags too, and every idea I had had too many opsec downsides
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aaronpk heh